Émilien of Nantes

Saint-Emilien

One supposes that Saint Emilien was born with Nantes from a family Gallo-Roman and that, before being bishop, it was Soldat. At time, of sound episcopate, the Moslem S, under the name of Buckwheat S, threatened the Christian religion and the European sovereigns. It could not remain insensitive to so many dangers: he preached the Holy war, and took the weapons with a great number of his faithful. For the town of Autun besieged, with Saint-Forgeot, it gained a first victory, and made its entry in Autun. A few days afterwards, it put the enemy unrolls some in SaintPierre-l' Étrier, then with Hollow-in Ausy; but, encircled with Saint-Jean-with-Luz, by formidable a arméee run of Châlons, it was overcome and killed in the battle (725). Here how the chronicle tells its death: “ It still arranguait its soldiers when a messenger arrived at any support: " Lord, you hasten, already the pagan ones base on your people and your army, and fight them with fury. ” the saint pontiff entrusting as a God is armed with the sign of the cross and known as: “ Lord, I give my heart between your hands ”; then it precipitates with the combat while exclaiming: “ Courage, soldiers, give you of very to God ”. However, it happened that Nympheus, man of a marvellous force and a size was offered first to its meeting. Emilien the indicator to massacre the Christians and to overpower them cruelties and insults, springs courageously against him, and covers it blows and wounds. The pagan ones run in great number to the help of their chief, concerned it with ground, and strike the saint bishop of their swords and their lances. This one did not cease exhorting to them his: “ do not fear the death which leads to the life; the sky a better fate awaits you; there is your reward ”. Saying these words, it exhales its last sigh. On the order of Nympheus, its body is decapitated.

A few years later, in the fields of Poitiers, Charles Martel crushed the army sarrasinne, reducing its future incursions to the north of the Pyrenees to humbler plunders. The inhabitants of Autun, full with admiration and recognition for such soldiers collected their remainders piously, deposited them in stone monolythes sarcophagi, and raised an oratory on the tomb of Emilien. In XIe century, the venerated remainders of the saint were transported in the church of Saint-Jean-with-Luz which changed its name into that of Emilien Saint. So in Nantes Saint Emilien was a long time in lapse of memory, it was because he died on a ground moved away, combatant near the Francs little time before the city does not become Breton and that no monument pointed out it â our memory. In 1856, Monseigneur Jaqueniet wanted to establish his worship in the diocese; it accepted relics of the saint and asked Rome that its name was registered with the calendar of the church of Nantes and its festival celebrated in the diocese. A parish had just been founded; it had the badge honor to receive its name and to be placed under its patronage (it is about Saint-Emilien-with-Blain).

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